A 38-year-old man will spend the next seven to 15 years in state prison for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Falls Township last year.
Shane Ferguson, of Morrisville, pleaded guilty in September to rape by forcible compulsion, aggravated indecent assault, aggravated indecent assault of a person less than 16, indecent assault, indecent assault of a person less than 16 and endangering the welfare of a child.
In her victim impact statement on Tuesday, the victim’s mother told Bucks County Common Pleas Court Judge Gary B. Gilman that the attack was a “horrific nightmare” that caused “fear, sheer panic and anxiety” to her daughter.
“A resounding message must be sent to sexual predators,” she said.
Gilman sentenced Ferguson to seven to 15 years in state prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He also was sentenced to two to four years for violating his parole, running concurrently to his sentence on the rape case.
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